House

Originally I wanted to do a House Hunters Guam episode where I showed three different houses and then at the end decided which one I wanted. I thought of that idea too late because by then I pretty much was done looking at houses so instead you just get to see what I picked! The winner was...

Guam Beachfront Residences!

It isn't completely furnished but the owner did agree to give us some cheapo couches, 2 queen size beds, and one twin bed. She probably agreed because our rent is 4400 bucks/month and David and I are 99% positive that the rent for normal people is probably lower so they decided to give us a little extra. Places around here are all tailored for military so everything is in increments of 2200 dollars because that is exactly how much OHA (overseas housing allowance) we get. Since it is use it or lose it I guess the owners win and the renters don't really care.

Anyway this entire weekend has been spent buying a bunch of random house stuff and furniture. This completely destroys my point of trying to own nothing but I guess I gotta start owning some sorta furniture someday. I will eventually post some before/after since as of right now it is under construction.

This is David's room. He took the master bedroom because I wanted the one with its own private balcony, even though its slightly smaller. You can see here he is hard at work building his dresser and rummaging through his boxes of assorted things.

Here is my room. The picture is a little dark but with the windows open it is way too bright for the camera to handle. The lower picture is my balcony where I will one day put some chairs on it so in the mornings I can enjoy my breakfast and stare out at the ocean while pondering life.

Here is the dining room/living room. To the left of it is the kitchen but there are no pics so you will just have to imagine it.

Finally here is the view from the main room out into the ocean. Every night I get a nice view of the sunset so for those romantic evenings I should be all set. All I would need is some dolphins to swim by.

On a different note we went to the beach today. The water is amazing but it has a ton of coral pieces and rocks that are painful to walk on so I need to get some water shoes. The current is amazingly strong as well - I guess that lame video I had to watch when getting on island about water safety wasn't lying.

And while I'm jumping from topic to topic... after talking to Grandpa and how he was stationed in Guam in 1951 I decided to look up pictures of what it was like in the 50s and I found one that was nearly identical to mine.

 Before

After

Mine has a Japanese tourist at the bottom so it is logically the better picture.

Since I normally end my posts with a random picture, this weeks goes to...

Goodbye until the next blog post!